William Riera is a Cuban American visual artist based in Miami, Florida, where he has lived since 1995. His work investigates image-making as a site of tension between visibility and silence, engaging questions of identity, memory, and the politics of representation across transnational and contemporary contexts.
Originally trained as a Software Systems Engineer at Havana’s Technological University (CUJAE), Riera has developed a long-standing career in information technology within the public sector, working for Miami-Dade County since 1998. His professional engagement with systems, governance, and institutional infrastructures informs his artistic practice, where processes of organization, control, and interpretation intersect with the construction of images.
Since the early 2000s, Riera has cultivated a sustained photographic practice, working across analog and digital methodologies. He studied black-and-white photography at Miami-Dade College and continued his formation through programs at the New York Institute of Photography and Página en Blando in Mexico City, where he worked under the guidance of critic and curator Juan Antonio Molina. In 2022, he completed a Master’s Degree in Modern and Contemporary Art at Casa LAMM Cultural Center in Mexico City.
Riera’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Mexico, and Spain. His work draws from Latin American and Latinx perspectives while interrogating broader social and political structures that exceed geographic and cultural boundaries. In parallel, he has been actively involved in cultural production since 2015, organizing exhibitions in Miami. In 2020, he founded the South Florida Latin American Photography Forum (SoFLaFoto), a platform dedicated to supporting and amplifying Latin American and Latinx photographic practices across geographic and institutional contexts.